00:14:15 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! Want to join the OPCUG? - https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ Want to present at Q&A? Give us your material and we can create slides, or we have a PowerPoint template you can download and use: https://opcug.ca/downloads/Q&A-Template.potx Send in questions, shares, etc SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 00:16:19 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: G is for GNU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_PWWQ-S9_Y 00:20:51 E O'Driscoll: XINU~=UNIX ~= GNU ... very funny. 00:22:12 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Latest surveillance threat: Air fryers https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/11/air-fryers-are-the-latest-surveillance-threat-you-didnt-consider? 00:22:49 Tom Trottier: Nov 15 ncf https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ncf-digital-skills-workshop-password-managers-tickets-1057338099719 00:24:01 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Lava Lamps Are Keeping The Internet Secure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmqvssSmphg 00:24:40 Tom Trottier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand 00:24:59 Tom Trottier: "Lavarand, also known as the Wall of Entropy, was a hardware random number generator designed by Silicon Graphics that worked by taking pictures of the patterns made by the floating material in lava lamps, extracting random data from the pictures, and using the result to seed a pseudorandom number generator.[1]" 00:28:15 E O'Driscoll: Virus protection? 00:28:31 Timothy: you have a dot on the shield icon. 00:28:32 Stew Bruce: The shield icon 00:28:40 Tom Trottier: You push the start button to stop 00:36:58 Tom Trottier: We certainly don't want to whine about running windows under Linux 00:38:01 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Thunderbird for Android https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-for-android-8-0-takes-flight/ https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-android-import https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/1fzgf02/comment/lrcngpm/ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/faq-thunderbird-mobile-and-k-9-mail/ 00:40:13 Tom Trottier: GNU users 00:40:16 Tom Trottier: ? 00:41:57 Stew Bruce: K-9 won't go away as long as you walk it once a day. 00:42:10 Carol Pearson: How is thunderbird a gmail account? 00:42:36 Glen: Al, were the files for the shutdown and restart icons provided in the Linux distribution or did you have to download them from the Internet? 00:42:51 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): @Carol Thunderbird can access Gmail accounts 00:43:37 Tom Trottier: New brown button for email: 💩 00:47:56 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Many Penny Smart Savings www.manypenny.ca 00:49:35 Tom Trottier: Or.... https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/1h1j12c/weekly_grocery_review_sales_for_nov_28_dec_4_2024/ 00:50:59 Tom Trottier: Good for making shiopping list with stores 00:51:08 E O'Driscoll: I wonder how Many Penny pays for its service...no ads. 00:52:18 Tom Trottier: Does it work with produce? 00:53:04 E O'Driscoll: Very interesting about Many Penny - one can quickly pull up the lowest priced item for a "price check". That beats finding the item in the flyer. 00:54:14 Tom Trottier: www.manypenny.ca 00:54:51 Jocelyn Doire: it could be good to decide to stock up on that item 00:54:53 Natalie: Prices can also vary with stores that are franchised/individual. I learned that the hard way with Shoppers.: 3 stores near me had a different regular price for the same item. 00:55:17 Bill: Thanks Bob. 00:55:46 Natalie: Does the price you see on the app related to a specific store? 00:56:04 Natalie: At a specific location? 00:56:57 Stew Bruce: Thats good Bob, blame it on the app 00:57:03 E O'Driscoll: Thanks Bob! 00:58:06 Timothy: Only in Canada....pity. Thanks Bob. 00:58:40 Ma Vo: when the comparison is displayed, does it only show the retail price or will it display any given special (flyer price)? 00:59:58 Natalie: Thanks! 01:00:04 Stew Bruce: One thing to consider with free apps is how much data they use. High data use may indicate detailed trcking. 01:00:40 Tom Trottier: 🦃 01:01:14 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Next up is the "Last Ten" - the time to ask your burning question! 01:01:31 E O'Driscoll: 😄 01:05:33 Tom Trottier: For future grocery sales: https://www.reddit.com/user/Stromanker/ 01:05:53 E O'Driscoll: What is an example of an open-source component? 01:06:59 Tom Trottier: https://vulndetect.org/ 01:08:37 Timothy: Is Murphy back again this week? 01:08:47 E O'Driscoll: Open-source component = Tunnelbear 01:11:37 Tom Trottier: 7zip bug deep dive 01:11:41 Tom Trottier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5L9xEk_adw 01:11:46 Harvey Hope: TunnelBear is a secure VPN service ... I don't see the relationship to OpenVPN on the program path. 01:12:03 Tom Trottier: basically update - there is a bug, but no viruses 01:12:22 Jocelyn Doire: Wikipedia and Google maps are two other places that users can submit reports/fixes 01:14:37 Ma Vo: for Many Penny... when the comparison is displayed, does it only show the retail price or will it display any given special (flyer price)? 01:15:09 Jocelyn Doire: Good complains includes the details to reproduce the problem 01:16:00 Tom Trottier: https://www.7-zip.org/ 01:16:12 Tom Trottier: 24.08 is recent version 01:17:04 Bill: Thanks Chris, Alan and Bob and Tom. 01:17:18 E O'Driscoll: One million thanks guys! 01:17:27 Carol Pearson: Thanks good info 01:17:30 Michelle Faber: Thank you. 01:17:33 Ed Morawski: Really good information! 01:17:33 Natalie: Thanks 01:17:49 Harvey Hope: Thanks 01:17:55 Michelle Faber: Good evening. 01:18:43 Wayne: Another great evening. Thanks 01:19:52 Rosemary: Thanks for a great meeting 01:20:19 Tom Trottier: https://patchmypc.com/product/home-updater 01:20:42 Bob Herres: GlassWire is a third-party firewall and network monitoring software.... 01:25:00 Tom Trottier: https://www.glasswire.com/download/